You've used : su - root Before this, you possibly need populate some environment variables from your postgre user.
------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- iihero(Xiong He) http://www.sql9.com ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Terrance Chen"<naturalc...@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2012 11:14 PM To: "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org"<pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>; Subject: [BUGS] Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /var/lib/pgsql system=fedora15 software env=all software in DVD are completely installed(include pgsql psql) and some thing like pppoe postgresql are install with fedora by default option, /etc/passwd/: postgres PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash operations: su - postgres initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -E UTF-8 pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -l logfile start pg_ctl status {terminal return pg_ctl: (PID: 3052)/usr/bin/postgres "-D" "/var/lib/pgsql/data"} createdb DatabaseName psql DatabaseName su - root cd /home/download/pgadmin3-1.14.0 ./configure --with-pgsql=/var/lib/pgsql { Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /var/lib/pgsql }
